Extractions: In response to a 1984 USGA call for proposals to develop reduced-maintenance turfgrasses, a team of scientists from the University of Nebraska led by Drs. Edward Kinbacher, Terrance Riordan, and Robert Shearman began evaluating buffalograss for use as a turfgrass. Interest in water conservation and reducing chemical inputs for turfgrass culture made buffalograss a desirable choice. USGA-sponsored breeding efforts to improve buffalograss for use as a turfgrass have been very successful and have resulted in the release of eight buffalograss cultivars. As the new buffalograss cultivars entered the market, it became evident that there was a need for research to investigate fundamental management practices. After all, this was not the same buffalograss that had been growing on the Great Plains for many thousands of years, but rather this was buffalograss that had been selected for favorable turfgrass traits such as color, density, uniformity, and vigor of spread.
PNWFWC Members coop. ext. service Washington State University 169 Johnson Hall Dan Marcum Univ. of california coop. ext.. PO Box 9 44128 A Street McArthur, CA 96056 http://forages.oregonstate.edu/projects/pnwfw/Home/People/People.html
National Park Service - Nature & Science: Biologic Resources Southern Nevada, southeastern california, and central Arizona have the highest 1989. Spiders. extension Bulletin E72, Purdue Univ. coop. ext. Ser. http://www.nature.nps.gov/biology/ipm/manual/spiders.htm
Extractions: NPS Home Biologic Resources NPS Biology Spiders and Scorpions This module is intended to serve as a source of basic information needed to implement an integrated pest management program for spiders and scorpions. Any pest management plan or activity must be formulated within the framework of the management zones where it will be implemented. Full consideration must be given to threatened and endangered species, natural and cultural resources, human health and safety, and the legal mandates of the individual parks. Recommendations in this module must be evaluated and applied in relation to these broader considerations. Most people are familiar with the general appearance of both spiders and scorpions. Spiders and scorpions are both arachnids, which is a group of animals that also includes mites, ticks, and harvestmen (daddy longlegs). The arachnids are closely related to insects. Both spiders and scorpions, like insects, have a hard external body, but spiders and scorpions have four pairs of legs while insects have three pairs.
Tourism: The Economic Impact Of Visitors To Your Community Source Adapted from california Economic Practices Manual (chapter 1). The University of Alaska Fairbanks Cooperative Extension service programs are http://www.uaf.edu/coop-ext/publications/freepubs/WREP-144.html
Extractions: University of Wyoming Source: Adapted from California Economic Practices Manual (chapter 1). Impact studies that examine the economic effects within a community of development projects such as a new hotel are usually confined to a fiscal analysis of local government costs and revenues. But increasing emphasis on the total environment-social, biological, and business-calls for an appraisal of broader impacts within the community for a wholistic perspective. Economic impact studies need to provide information about the effects on jobs, income, or housing, as well as how a project will affect the community's overall environment. The effects a project has on various groups within a community (i.e. its distribution effects) are often more important than its economic efficiency. An economic impact assessment can become a useful tool for a community to use in working out what is most economically effective considering the goals for family income, distribution of benefits and costs, fiscal impacts, benefits over time, etc. The approach to setting up such a study will depend on the situation, the community, and the analyst's judgment. The study is not the final word on whether a particular choice should be made; it simply presents alternatives and their effects. The purpose of an economic study is to put some practical problems in proper perspective for a public decision-making process. Frequently, decisions must be made with less information than any community would desire.
Extractions: WASHINGTON, DC 20006 August 11, 1980 MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF AGENCIES SUBJECT: Prime and Unique Agricultural Lands and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) The accompanying memorandum on Analysis of Impacts on Prime or Unique Agricultural Lands in Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act was developed in cooperation with the Department of Agriculture. It updates and supersedes the Council's previous memorandum on this subject of August 1976. In order to review agency progress or problems in implementing this memorandum the Council will request periodic reports from federal agencies as part of our ongoing oversight of agency implementation of NEPA and the Council's regulations. At this time we would appreciate receiving from your agency by November 1, 1980, the following information: identification and brief summary of existing or proposed agency policies, regulations and other directives specifically intended to preserve or mitigate the effects of agency actions on prime or unique agricultural lands, including criteria or methodology used in assessing these impacts.
New Literature For New Crops Small Farm Center, Univ. california, coop. ext., Davis. SB306.U6K651989 cooperative State Research service. Special Projects and Program Systems. http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/proceedings1996/v3-151.html
Extractions: Index Search Home Table of Contents Potter Gates, J. 1996. New literature for new crops. p. 151-154. In: J. Janick (ed.), Progress in new crops. ASHS Press, Alexandria, VA. LIBRARIES, CENTERS, AND SERVICES DATABASES AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) AGRIS International ... NEW CROP MONOGRAPHS 1980-1995 The United States government has long recognized the importance of agriculture in keeping people well-fed, well-clothed, and well-housed, as well as acknowledging the role of science in helping to achieve and sustain those conditions through exploration and research. In the pursuit of new crops, the importance of bibliographic information in the success of such exploration and research cannot be over-emphasized. Since 1862, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), through the National Agricultural Library (NAL), has collected, compiled, and disseminated information relevant to that mission. The National Agricultural Library (NAL), part of the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS), is the largest agricultural library in the world. NAL has 10 subject specific information centers that provide customized services to the agricultural community and others. All of the Centers can be accessed electronically through the NAL gopher and the NAL homepage (see addresses below). The Centers include: Agricultural Trade and Marketing, Alternative Farming Systems, Animal Welfare, Aquaculture, Biotechnology, Food and Nutrition, Plant Genome Database. Rural Technology Transfer, and Water Quality.
Stream Releaf Tables Department of Forestry Resource Management, University of california @ Berkeley. report/booklet $15/copy/Also available from PA coop. ext. service http://www.dep.state.pa.us/hosting/streamreleaf/tables.htm
Extractions: Table 5. Annotated List of References and Sources of More Information Reference/Author/Content Format Audience Contact/Cost Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay. January 1996. Riparian Forest Buffers. Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay 1-800-662-CRIS. White Paper GP ACB 1-800-662-CRIS Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay. 1997. Wetland and Riparian Stewardship in Pennsylvania, A guide to Voluntary Options for Landowners, Local Governments and Organizations. Harrisburg, PA. 334 page booklet L; M; W, S, C, E Groups ACB $1/copy Bouquet River Association, The. How to Hold Up Banks: Using All The Assessts. A stream erosion control Booklet. Box 217, Elizabethtown, NY 12932. 518-873-3688. GP Brandywine Conservancy. 1995. Environmental Management Handbook. Chadds Ford, PA M Casco Bay Estuary Project. BMPs: Cost-effective Solutions to Protect Maines Water Quality. 1995. 312 Canco Road, Portland, ME 04103. 207-828-1043. M; D, REA; W, S, C, E Groups Manual M, D, REA; NRMP Center for Watershed Protection 8737 Colesville Rd., Suite L-105 Silver Spring, MD 20910
Western Pine Beetle coop. ext. Leafl. 21034. Berkeley, CA University of california, cooperative extension Berkeley, CA US Department of Agriculture, Forest service, http://www.barkbeetles.org/western/WPBFIDL1.htm
Extractions: Adapted from http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/fidls/we_pine_beetle/wpb.htm The western pine beetle, Dendroctonus brevicomis LeConte, can aggressively attack and kill ponderosa and Coulter pine trees of all ages and vigor classes that are 6 inches (15 cm) or larger in diameter, including apparently healthy trees. Group killing of trees is common in dense, overstocked stands of pure, even-aged, young sawtimber (fig. 1), but also occurs among dense clumps of pine in stagnating mixed-conifer stands. One million or more trees containing more than 1 billion board feet of timber may be killed each year during an outbreak. Such extensive tree killing may deplete timber supplies, adversely affect levels and distributions of stocking, disrupt management planning and operations, and increase forest fire danger by adding to available fuels. Usually, the beetles breed in and kill scattered, overmature, slow-growing, decadent, or diseased trees and trees weakened by stand stagnation, lightning, fire, or mechanical injury. This tree mortality need not be a loss, but may be considered part of the normal ecological process of succession through which a forest matures and replaces itself. Some of the trees killed under these conditions, however, may be on residential or recreation sites. These highly prized trees are often impossible to replace and expensive to remove.
V service for the State of california (including Hastings College of Law), the Department Cont. Educ. Specialist, 11, YES, YES, D. coop ext. service Appt. http://accounting.ucr.edu/leave.htm
Extractions: I. LEAVE ACCRUAL TABLE (pdf file - must have Acrobat Reader to view and print). II. Attendance, Time Reporting, and Leave Accrual Records. LEAVE ACCRUAL RECORDS Vacation and sick leaves are accrued based on the leave accrual codes established on the Personnel Action Form (PAF). Leave code is established by the department when an appointment is initially set up. For staff employees thereafter, the Payroll/Personnel system will re-derive the leave code on the appointment. The Payroll/Personnel system re-derives the leave code for all staff employees during month-begin periodic maintenance that is usually done on the third working day of every month. The Payroll/Personnel system does not re-derive the leave codes for Academic employees Re-derivation of leave codes for staff employees is done once a month based on the employee service credit (ESC) and prior service months recorded on the employee database (EDB). ESC is recorded on the EDB once a month based on the hours on pay status. To earn 1 month ESC, an employee has to be paid 50 percent or more. The following indicates the rate at which vacation and sick leaves are accrued by the employee for an appointment.
ASAE Employers Around Arkansas coop ext service, PO Box 30 Augusta, AR 72006. coop ext service, PO Box 391 Little Rock, AR 72203 Cargill Inc, 218 Amador 52 california, MO 64798 http://www.baeg.uark.edu/students/ASAE_employers.html
Extractions: ASAE List Of Employers By State (AR And Surrounding) ARKANSAS ADEQ 8001 National Drive Little Rock, AR 72209 ADEQ P. O. Box 8913 Little Rock, AR 72219-8913 Agri Process Innovations 2308 Smith St. Stuttgart, AR 72160 Allen Canning 305 E. Main St. Siloam Springs, AR 72761 Amer Health Care 1901 Cambridge St Springdale, AR 72762 Arkansas Hwy Dept 2810 Oaklane El Dorado, AR 71730 Arla Gas Co 2127 Prysock Benton, AR 72015 Avian Acres Route 2 Box 354 Huntsville, AR 72740 Beaver Water Dist P O Box 400 Lowell, AR 72745 Bullington Farms Rot 1 Box 201-B Mccrory, AR 72101 Cargill P. O. Box 225 Springdale, AR 72764 Carwell Elevator Co. P. O. Box 189 Cherry Valley, AR 72324-0189 Chapel Gardends Rt 7 Box 715 Pine Bluff, AR 71603 Coop Ext Service P. O. Box 30 Augusta, AR 72006 Coop Ext Service P. O. Box 391 Little Rock, AR 72203 Cooper Industries 1007 Dove Rogers, AR 72756 Corps Of Engineers 2927 Youngwood Little Rock, AR 72207 Dearing Farming Box B Holly Grove, AR 72069 P.O. Box 8913 Little Rock, AR 72209 8001 National Ave Little Rock, AR 72209 Egg City Inc 809 E 6th Hope, AR 71801
My Master Gardener Page coop. ext. Marin County, california Master Gardeners Florida County cooperative extension service Master Gardener Coordinators http://www.hal-pc.org/~trobb/mastgar.html
Extractions: You are visitor A separate and distinct area of gardening is that of the Master Gardener - the voluntary arm of the Agricultural Extension Services. As a Past President and member of the Harris County Master Gardener Association (Houston, Texas), I am more familiar with the Texas Master Gardener program but Master Gardening is nationwide in scope and on this page I will be attempting to put it all together. I am often asked the question, "Who and what are 'Master Gardeners'"? The following comments, questions and answers are geared primarily to the Texas Master Gardener Program. However, with slight differences, they also apply to all 50 states since all now have "Master Gardener Programs". They also generally apply in the four Canadian provinces with the program except for the sponsorship of Cooperative Extension agencies. Master Gardeners are members of the local community who take an active interest in their lawns, trees, shrubs, flowers and gardens. They are enthusiastic, willing to learn and to help others, and able to communicate with diverse groups of people. What really sets Master Gardeners apart from other home gardeners is their special training in horticulture. In exchange for their training, persons who become Master Gardeners contribute time as volunteers, working through their cooperative Extension office to provide horticulture-related information to their communities.
Grants - December 3, 2001 coop ext, Richard, R. USDAForest service, $14500, 10/01-6/02 NUTR SCI, Fernandez, M. The california Table Grape Commission, $25000, 9/01-8/02 http://www.advance.uconn.edu/2001/011203/011203gr.htm
Extractions: The following grants were received through the Office for Sponsored Programs in October . The list represents only new proposals awarded and excludes continuations. The list of grants is supplied to the Advance each month by the Office for Sponsored Programs, and is printed in one or more issues, depending on space available. Department Principal Investigator Sponsor Amount Award Period AGR Kerr, K. USDA-Animal Health-537 Animal Health-537 Mother File FY 2002 AGR Kerr, K. USDA-Hatch Administration -428 Hatch-428 Mother File FY 2002 AGR Kerr, K. USDA-McIntire-Stennis-536 McIntire-Stennis-536 Mother File FY 2002 AGR Kerr, K. USDA-Multistate Research-462 Multistate-462 Mother File FY 2002 COOP EXT Bartholomew, C. University of Maine New England Pest Management Information Network COOP EXT Giannotti, L. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials (Nemo): Reducing Impacts from Urban Areas (Co-PI: Gibbons, C.; Chester, A.)
Western Pine Beetle - FIDL 1Research Entomologist, US Department of Agriculture, Forest service, Pacific Southwest coop. ext. Leafl. 21034. Berkeley, CA University of california, http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/fidls/we_pine_beetle/wpb.htm
Extractions: Supervisory Entomologist, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region, San Francisco, Calif. The western pine beetle, Dendroctonus brevicomis LeConte, can aggressively attack and kill ponderosa and Coulter pine trees of all ages and vigor classes that are 6 inches (15 cm) or larger in diameter, including apparently healthy trees. Group killing of trees is common in dense, overstocked stands of pure, even-aged, young sawtimber (fig. 1), but also occurs among dense clumps of pine in stagnating mixed-conifer stands. One million or more trees containing more than 1 billion board feet of timber may be killed each year during an outbreak. Such extensive tree killing may deplete timber supplies, adversely affect levels and distributions of stocking, disrupt management planning and operations, and increase forest fire danger by adding to available fuels. Figure 1 Group tree killing by western pine beetle in a dense, young-growth ponderosa pine stand.
Other Plant Disease And Ag Related Sites coop. ext. Services, No Till Information, Market Reports, Ag Stats. Other Information california Pest Management Guidelines (by Univ. of Calif., Davis) http://www.uidaho.edu/ag/plantdisease/other.htm
Extractions: Plant Disease Information Biotechnology Information IPM Information Pesticide Information ... Other Information Plant Disease Information Pacific Northwest Plant Disease Control Handbook (by Oregon State Univ.) California Pest Management Guidelines (by Univ. of Calif., Davis) Plant Health Progress MoreCrop - Wheat Disease Management System for the PNW (by Washington State Univ.) Texas Plant Disease Handbook National Agricultural Pest Information (by USDA-APHIS, PPQ) Plant Disease Information Notes (by North Carolina State Univ.) Ohio Farm and Production Agriculture Information (by Ohio State Univ.) Plant Disease Articles (by Iowa State Univ. Coop. Ext. System) Plant Disease Informaton for Vegetables (by Colorado State Univ.) Pest Alert (by Colorado State Univ. Coop. Ext. System) Plant Disease Alerts (by Kansas State Univ. Coop. Ext. System) Montana Crop Health Report (by Montana State Univ. Ext. Service) Cereal Rust Bulletins (by the USDA ARS Cereal Rust Lab) Integrated Crop Management Newsletter (by Iowa State Univ. Coop. Ext. System)
Mistletoe Management Guidelines--UC IPM Other species of broadleaf mistletoes in california include P. villosum, which infests only oaks, Univ. Calif. coop. ext., Marin County, HortScript 14. http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7437.html
Extractions: Funded-project results Printer-friendly version More landscape pests Pests of homes, people, pets About Pest Notes Published In this Guideline: Broadleaf mistletoe (Phoradendron macrophyllum) is an evergreen parasitic plant that grows on a number of landscape tree species in California. Hosts of broadleaf mistletoe include alder, 'Aristocrat' flowering pear, ash, birch, box elder, cottonwood, locust, silver maple, walnut, and zelkova. Other species of broadleaf mistletoes in California include P. villosum, which infests only oaks, and Viscum album, which attacks alder, apple, black locust, cottonwood, and maple in Sonoma County only. Conifers are less often attacked by broadleaf mistletoes, but white fir (Abies concolor ) is significantly infested in the southern Sierra Nevada mountain area.
2004 UC IPM Annual Report: Competitive Grants Programs ext. Santa Cruz Co.; KL Robb, UC coop. ext. San Diego Co. (Year 1 of 1) Vegetable Crops, UC Davis; Marco Metzger, california Dept. of Health Services, http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/IPMPROJECT/2004/04competitivegrants.html
Extractions: Funded-project results Printer-friendly version Next article 2004 index More reports Summaries of research projects are online . Funded projects (below) are linked to the summaries. Two years of budget cuts to UC IPM, totaling almost $500,000, have drastically reduced the amount of funds available for new research grants. However, UC IPM officials have released a request for proposals for new projects for 2005-06. In 2004-05, continuing projects exhausted most of the available funds, but the program was able to fund one year of four of the projects that had been approved, but not funded, for 2003-04. Mike Rust , Entomology, UC Riverside, stepped down as Associate Director for Research in 2003. This position has not been refilled, and for now will continue to be vacant since the UC IPM grants program has been significantly reduced. If the grants program can be rebuilt, an associate director for research will be appointed.
Food Safety In Connecticut-Fact Sheets South Dakota State University Cooperative ext. service University of california at Davis, http//foodsafe.ucdavis.edu/ http://www.canr.uconn.edu/ces/foodsafety/expert/hotlinkstab.html
Extractions: Food Safety Topics Foodborne Illness Safety At Home Meat Poultry Fish/Seafood Milk/Dairy Eggs Fruits/Vegetables Food Processing New Technologies Seasonal Issues For More Help Cooperative Ext. Foodsafety Resource Web Sites Alabama Cooperative Ext. System http://www.aces.edu/dept/extcomm/publications/he/hefn.html Alaska Cooperative Ext. www.uaf.edu/coop-ext/publications/fhepubs.html Clemson University Cooperative Ext. Service http://hgic.clemson.edu/ Colorado State University Cooperative Ext. www.colostate.edu/orgs/safefood Cornell Cooperative Ext. www.cce.cornell.edu/food/resources.html Delaware Cooperative Ext. http://bluehen.ags.udel.edu/deces/fnf/fs-list.htm Iowa State University Ext. www.extension.iastate.edu/Pages/families/fs/homepage.html Kansas State University Cooperative Ext. Service www.oznet.ksu.edu/foodsafety/ Maryland Cooperative Ext. www.agnr.umd.edu/ces/fcs/nutrition.html Michigan State University Ext. http://foodsafe.fshn.msu.edu/main.html Mississippi State University Ext. Service http://www.ext.msstate.edu/fce/foodsafety/fs.html Montana State University Ext. Service www.montana.edu./~wwwnutr/extension/index.html
Directory Of Entomology Departments And Institutes: USA Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services california Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Email mkoch@coop.ext.colostate.edu (Mike Koch) http://www.sciref.org/links/EntDept/UC.htm
Extractions: The Directory of Entomology Departments and Institutes (DEDI) currently contains contact information for approximately 1500 entomology departments and institutes in the academic institutions and government agencies of 152 different countries. This file contains the DEDI listing for the states of California, Colorado, and Connecticut in the USA. For an explanation of the content and arrangement of DEDI, please read the Introduction page. You may search for a specific department using the Index of Departments . You may go to the Navigation Page to choose another state or a different country. To choose one of the states in this file, click the appropriate link below.
Interregional Research Project #4 Cornell coop. ext. 480 North Main St. Canandaigua, NY, 14424 Texas A M ext. service ext. Plant Pathologist Box 38 Overton, TX, 75684 http://ir4.rutgers.edu/Cindex.cfm?nd=nd&letter=P
